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Abuja– Finland has the best education system in the world, says the Registrar and Chief Executive of the Teachers’ Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN), Professor Josiah Ajiboye. Ajiboye added that Finland’s system is of high quality because they placed the ... Read more

Members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Polytechnics (SSANIP), the Polytechnic Ibadan chapter, on Tuesday, staged a protest against the non-implementation of the new minimum wage by the Oyo State government. They called on Governor Seyi Makinde to ensure that the new minimum wage is used to pay SSANIP members’ salary in the ... Read more

THERE was jubilation on the Akoka, Yaba campus of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) when news of the reinstatement of Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe as the institution’s Vice Chancellor filtered in last night. The Nation learnt that the Federal Government had approved the White Paper by the Visitation Panel which investigated Ogundipe’s ... Read more

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has ordered immediate reinstatement of Professor Oluwatoyin Ogindipe as Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos. On the other hand,the president ordered immediate dissolution of the Governing Council of the University of Lagos,headed by Dr Wale Babalakin. This followed the president’s approval of the ... Read more

Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State.Alhaji Abubakar Zakari, the Executive Secretary, Kano State Scholarship Board, has said that 60,000 students would benefit from the 2020 scholarship in the state. He said on Tuesday in Kano that over 50,000 students have applied so far. ... Read more

The University of Benin (UNIBEN) has postponed its Post-UTME (PUTME) admission screening to Dec. 2. Dr. Benedicta Ehanire, Public Relations Officer of UNIBEN, disclosed this in a statement issued on Wednesday in Benin. “The University of Benin (UNIBEN) Post-UTME (PUTME) Admission Screening Exercise for 2020/2021 that was formerly scheduled ... Read more

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has resolved to organise a nationwide mass protest for the immediate reopening of all universities across the country. This resolution was reached in a communiqué issued on Wednesday in Enugu after NANS Students’ Leaders Emergency Virtual Meeting held on Nov. 9. The ... Read more

Indication has emerged that there is no end in sight to the ongoing face-off between the Academic Staff Union of Universities and the Federal Government. Minister of Labour, Employment and Productivity, Senator Chris Ngige told journalists on Wednesday that certain unions within the ivory towers have since kicked against the proposed ... Read more

Enugu — The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has resolved to organise a nationwide mass protest to press home its demand for the immediate reopening of all universities across the country. This is part of resolutions reached in a communiqué issued on Wednesday in Enugu after the NANS Student Leaders’ ... Read more

Abuja — The ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) may take a long while to resolve, following the position of the federal government. Federal government on Wednesday pointedly told ASUU that it is not proper to be using different payment platform in the Nigerian Universities. This is even as the Senior ... Read more